Pandanus sp. - White center

[Carlo Morici]

This Pandanus produces white leaves and pups, which turn green as they get older.

Any idea?

Carlo

[Guest]

Probably Pandanus veitchii.

[Carlo Morici]

Thank you Eric, but ... are you sure? I thought Pandanus veitchii had stripes all over, not a white center like this.

I really know nothing about this plant, it was a gift of a friend who found it in one of those fancy indoor plant mixes that often come from Holland. And his plant is not much larger than the one I showed, so we are still far to see flowers or the overall habit.

Carlo

Carlo

[epicure3]

It could also be baptisii, no?

[Carlo Morici]

I don't think it is baptistii, because:

Pandanus baptistii is spineless (and green, or striped).

This one has tiny weak spines all over its margins.

I really know little about Pandanus anyway.

Carlo

[Stan]

I grew that for almost two years. Hard to imagine it as an outdoor landscape Pandanus since it grew so slowly. The one i had was your size when i started and for those almost two years in a tropical greenhouse it, maybe,grew to twice the height. At the same time Pandanus sandersi  Had broke it's pot and i had made many,many,cuttings and new plants.

[Carlo Morici]

Thank you Stan, mine is slow too. It seems we are talking about the same plant. As winter arrived I instictively took my plant in a greenhouse, away from the real life. It decidedly looks fragile.

Can anybody else give an opinion?

Carlo

[Guest]

They usually have white stripes. I have grown them and young pups frequently would produce solid white leaves but always lost this characteristic as they matured.

[Carlo Morici]

Aha! So it is a juvenile Pandanus veitchii which will eventually become striped?

Carlo